Re: Octave/Win32 update

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Jan-2007, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> |     - Include additional packages from \"extra/\" subdir
> |   of octave-forge
> |     . NaN
> |     . Windows
> |     . civil
> |     . integration
> |     . mapping
> |     . soctcl (not functional as \"listen\" is not
> |       implemented for Windows)
> |     . symband
> |     . tsa
> |     - Add README and octave-forge links in programs menu
> 
> I would like to request that we not distribute add-ons that replace
> functions that are already found in Octave without at least letting
> the user know that this has happened.  If the functions in Octave
> Forge that use the same names as functions that are already in Octave
> are better than the ones in Octave, then we should work to include
> them in the core Octave distribution to eliminate the duplication.
> 
> jwe
> 

John,

All of the packages that replace existing functionality of octave are in
extra/. These functions are disabled by default at the install stage. I
didn't check but I believe there is bubble help on each of the install
menu items and if the information you request isn't already there, then
it shouldn't be hard to add it..

D.